Chapter 62 Coronation Day

• "You have made me proud, daughter," Chief Topher praised while stroking Nerina's cheek with a calloused thumb.
• Nerina stood before her father in the middle of her chambers still, unmoving. Barely thirty minutes ago, she was being dressed by Delia and three other maids who fussed over the perfect style for her hair and made last-minute adjustments to the elegant, sweeping dress she was to wear.
• In an hour, she would be one step closer to finalizing her goal. What she and her father had always wanted—what he had whispered into her ears from the day she could walk.